Husking-machine.



n PATENTBD FEB. 26, 1907. E; J. WEIDNER.. HUSKING MACHINE. A`PPYLIGAT10N FILED FEBJS, 1905.

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UNITD STATES PATENT OFFICE.

` EDwA RD J; WEIDNER, orv LINDSAY,n NEBRASKA.

HusKlNe-MACHINE.

- Specification of Iietters Patent.

Application filed February 18, 1905. Serial No.` 246,289.

Patented Feb. 2e, 1907.

To @ZZ whom it 'may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD J. WEIDNER, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Lindsay, in the county of Platte .and State. of Nebraska, have invented new and useful Improvements in Husking-Machines, ofv which the following .is a specification.

My-invention has relation to a corn-husking apparatus, and it-comprises two similar snappi -rolls of-substantially equal diameters, eac formed square in cross-section and tiallye ual plain with its peripheriy a scribed, claimed, and illustrated in the' accompanying drawings ,fwherein- Figure 1 is a top plan view of my combined stripping and husking rolls arranged in relative position. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of one of the rolls. Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the line 3 3,. Fig. 1, illustrating the angle or edge of one roll being in opposition to the plane surface of the'other roll; and Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 3. Referring to the drawings by reference-numerals, 1 and 2 designate rolls squared in cross-section throughout their entire lengths and provided at their o posite ends with pintles 3, by means of w ch the rolls may be lournaled in applied position upon a machine. hese rolls are adapted to be arrangedin' paral lelism and each has secured to one of its pintles 3 a gear 4, said gears being adapted to mesh, whereby to impart reverse rotary motion to the rolls. geared that the angle or edge of one roll op- The rolls are so relatively,v

ppses the plane face of the other roll, as'tis lly illustrated in Figs. 3 and/1 of the draw' mos lIt is apparent from the above description,

taken in connection with the accompanying .'drawings, that during the rotation of the rolls 1 and 2 the angle or edge of one roll will engage a stalk and impinge it between itself,

and the opposing plane face of the other roll, thereby carrying said stalk between the rolls and removing the ears therefrom. A further rotation of the rolls will brin another angle into enga ement with the hus r of the ear and impinge t 1e husk between itself and another plane face of the opposing roll and thereby remove the husk from the ear. During this operation of removing the ear from the stalk and the husk from the ear the ear is not iiijured in the leastJ owing to the peculiar constrl'iction and relative arrangement of the ro s.

Havin thus fully described the invention, what is cIaimed as new is In a corn-husking machine, the combination of two similar snapping-rolls of substantially equal diameters, each formed square in cross-section, and with its periphery presenting four substantially e ual plain faces j oinin at right angles, said ro ls being e ually geare directly together so,A vas tol revo ve in opposite directions, with a feed motion, at

Vequal speeds, and being so correlated that directly op oses one of its angles to each roll one of the faces of t e other roll, whereby a nipping action with a quick release is exerted upon the material fed between the rolls, su'bstantially asv specified.

In testimony whereof I afHX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD J. WEIDNER. Witnesses CnAs. E. CHARNQUIST, EMMA DUcDr.v 

